Research Centers and Specialized Labs

NJIT's research enterprise focuses on basic, applied and translational research through four research clusters:

Life Sciences and Engineering

Sustainable Systems

Data Science and Information Technology

Transdisciplinary Areas

Research at NJIT is organized around multi-disciplinary centers of excellence that encourage partnerships among various disciplines, as well as with other educational institutions, private enterprise and government agencies.

Center for Resilient Design: Ready-to-build designs and expertise for smarter, more sustainable designs in areas affected by natural and man-made disasters.

Center for Manufacturing Systems: Advanced technology center with a dual mission of providing manufacturing support for university research programs and offering design and manufacturing expertise to small and mid-size companies.

W.M. Keck Laboratory: Manipulation of liquid flows and the small particles/microorganisms they transport in biological and biomedical technologies.

Research Centers in Data Science and Information Technologies

Center for Solar Terrestrial Research: Solar optical astronomy, solar radiophysics, terrestrial science.The Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR) at NJIT is an international leader in ground- and space-based solar and terrestrial physics, with interest in understanding the effects of the Sun on the geospace environment. CSTR operates the Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) and Owens Valley Solar Array (OVSA) in CA, the Jeffer Observatory at Jenny Jump State Forrest in NJ, and the Automated Geophysical Observatories (AGOs) distributed across the Antarctic iceshelf. The Center also manages a large number of instruments at South Pole Station, McMurdo Station, across South America, and across the United States. CSTR is also a PI organization in the NASA Van Allen Probes mission and houses the Space Weather Research Laboratory (SWRL), which does scientific research in the area of space weather with the mission to understand and forecast the magnetic activity of the Sun and its potential influence on Earth. Such instrumentation and data resources enable scientific studies spanning from the Sun’s surface, into the Sun’s extended atmosphere, and onwards into the Earth’s atmosphere.

Leir Center for Financial Bubble Research: Quantitative and qualitative research to determine how a financial bubble can be identified including its stages of development and what policies can best manage its impacts.

NJIT Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) provides contractual and technical assistance to small-established New Jersey businesses, who are interested in marketing their products, services to federal, state and local government agencies. The center operates under a cost sharing cooperative agreement between Department of Defense and New Jersey Institute of Technology.

ManufactureNJ (MNJ): is one of several New Jersey Talent Networks each of whose focus is on the specific needs of other key industries including: Financial Services; Health Care; Transportation, Logistics, and Distribution’ Life Sciences; Hospitality and Retail; and Technology and Entrepreneurship.